Norilsk - The Idea of North [Full Album]
Released: March 10, 2015
Tracklisting:
1 - Japetus (0:00)
2 - Planète heurt (8:11)
3 - Throa (15:50)
4 - La liberté aux ailes brisées (21:46)
5 - Nature morte (27:44)
6 - Potsdam Glo (31:51)
7 - La Grande Noirceur (38:10)
8 - The Idea of North (40:23)
End: 49:34
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Named afterSiberia’s northernmost city, home of a famous heavy metal smelting complex, Norilsk is a doom-death band from Gatineau (Québec), Canada. After releasing an EP, Japetus, in July 2014, Norilsk now unveils their debut album - “The Idea of North” in a glorious digipack edition on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
“The Idea of North” is a doom-death album crafted for the winter season: it has slow and crushing riffs, death growls, and atmospheric arrangements. An evocation of an ominous presence over a vast wasteland, “The Idea of North” is a massive offering that triggers the imagination. Its music draws comparison with doom-death bands such as My Dying Bride, Morgion and Ablaze in Hatred, but it also has a few atmospheric sludge/post metal elements reminiscent of Isis and Morne.
Feedback:
"The album, as a whole, is a slow moving glacier, much like the Japetus EP that came before it, but it is much thicker, longer, and brutally unforgiving, not stopping its steady march from the Northern mountains to the Northern ocean, where it will continue as icebergs destined to down ships. It’s a ride that you can’t just hop onto and off of when you are ready. This is an album full of nuance and attention to detail, and should be played as such, preferably with headphones. Throw in a doomed cover of a Belgian pop song, and you’ve got yourself a damn near perfect listen. Beyond recommended, I will probably go through two copies of this album this year alone."
-Crown of Viserys
"And one of the great strengths of 'The Idea Of North' is that it never sounds like a collection of ideas in search of a home: quite the opposite, in fact. There's a completeness in the way it grabs initial attention with the rousing, sludgy stomp of the first half, then evolves into a more chilly and thoughtfully introspective atmospheric beast (in places, even reminiscent of Dolorian); like a snow-fanged apocalypse avalanching across the world, leaving the last survivors huddled in the frozen wastes of its wake. The band call it 'crafted for the winter season', but by the visceral and lonely conclusion of the title track it seems quite possible that winter will be eternal."
-Doom-Metal.com
"This hour-long ode to the Arctic is a monolithic jamfest, through and through. From beginning to end, The Idea of North is a fantastic example of what modern doom metal should sound like. Thick, slow as molasses, and greatly atmospheric, Norilsk’s debut has exactly what it takes to land this band a spot in any doom metal fan’s list of bands to look out for."
-Heavy Blog is Heavy
Additional Norilsk Links:
Norilsk Profile: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk.php
Norilsk Archive / Blog: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk-blog.php
Norilsk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorilskDoom

Norilsk has challenged the very possibility of building a city in the extreme conditions of the North. It has become a world-class industrial center and one of the largest Arctic cities. And what else do we know about Norilsk? Presentation film for internal and external audiences.
Created in collaboration with N3design.

published:27 Feb 2018

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Russian/Nat
The financial crisis in Russia is about more than just politics - the heart of the Russian economy is straining under the pressure.
Even one of the country's biggest industries, nickel mining, has been put in jeopardy by the mounting difficulties.
Once fully protected, Soviet production was abandoned in 1994 to make way for free market competition - then Russia's financial crisis bit into its competitive appeal.
And now the world's largest nickel producer, Norilsk Nickel, has been left almost helpless as world prices for the metal continue to plummet.
Life in Norilsk is difficult at best, and almost always harrowing.
A city of more than 200-thousand, it is situated in the arctic tundra, where temperatures during the dark winter hover at minus 40 degrees Celsius and nothing grows - not even a tree.
50 years of non-stop mining and smelting has left this scarred city an environmental wasteland.
The air is poisonous and the water contaminated - Norilsk is believed to be the world's biggest source of acid rain.
Norilsk Nickel has spent most of its life under the arm of the Soviet government, originally churning out most of its metals for the Soviet military.
Now, however, Norilsk sells the majority of its product on the world market -- which means it must be competitive.
But since privatisation in 1994, Norilsk with its scores of smelters, mines and production facilities, has suffered one financial tragedy after another.
The factory's new owners are a Russian bank, itself nearly destroyed by the recent ruble devaluation.
It now has the massive and perhaps impossible task of turning a massive state subsidy into a profit making industry.
When the mine went private its new owners inherited a long list of problems, the biggest, all the social burdens of maintaining the city of Norilsk, from public transport, to hospitals, to kindergartens.
All of those costs make producing metal in Russia an extremely expensive business.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
"Norilsk Nickel has to answer for all of the town's social structure. Unfortunately that is just what history has left us. And without the company supporting the town, that is if we just abandoned those responsibilities, it is clear that the town of Norilsk would cease to exist. We cant just leave our workers, we have a responsibility to them. This is a very heavy load but we are doing our best to slowly transfer much of this responsibility to the government."
SUPERCAPTION: Alexander Bururhin, Chief Economist and HeadEngineer of Norilsk Nickel Factories
Despite all the company funding, life in Norilsk is hard.
Housed in crumbling apartment blocks, most workers never leave the factory - day after day it's often the only thing they see.
But the standard of living in Russia has fallen so low that these days most Norilsk residents feel grateful they have a job at all -- and that they are paid their wages on time.
During Soviet times citizens from all over the Union happily signed up for three to five year high-wage contracts in Norilsk's smelters and mines.
The idea was to work hard, save money and head back to the mainland.
But after the economy collapsed, industry across Russia has ground to a halt.
Most of those who came to Norilsk never got out. And they probably never will.
That makes for an ironic twist -- Norilsk was an icy prison camp before it was turned into the Soviet star of metals production.
Today many feel they are stuck in a modern financial gulag.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
SUPERCAPTION: Pavel Chernozhukov, Worker
Norilsk provides almost half the world's supply of nickel.
But despite its amazing resources, production costs are enormous.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
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The Daldykan River runs right past the Russian settlement of Norilsk, the world’s most northerly city. Remote it may be, but Norilsk, which sits firmly inside the Arctic Circle, is home to over 100,000 people. And, as of recently, it took center stage in an environmental scandal that’s captured the world’s attention.
The scandal occurred at the beginning of September 2016. Norilsk locals had noticed that the Daldykan River – normally so lovely and so blue – had turned a distressing shade of blood red. And, although the river is unconnected to the city’s water supply, residents deemed the color strange enough to share on Russian social media.
The RussianMinistry of Natural Resources and Environment subsequently promised to investigate the phenomenon. Its theory was that the red hue could be the result of a leak from the nearby Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant.
Others, however, believed that the color had been caused by a deliberate chemical runoff from the same plant. Others still blamed the incident on a combination of the facility’s wastewater mixing with mineral ore. But, whichever way you cut it, everybody was pointing the finger at the nickel plant.
This wasn’t, in fact, the first time that pollution had been blamed for weird events in this part of Siberia. Certainly, the region has many mines that tap into its rich deposits of copper, nickel and silvery-white palladium.
This wealth of natural resources, then, comes at a cost to the environment. Indeed, mining the metals means that over four million tons of pollutants – including arsenic and lead – are belched into the atmosphere from Norilsk each year.
Environmentalist Richard Fuller, the president of the Blacksmith Institute, told TIME that “there’s not a single living tree” within a 30-mile radius of the Nadezhda plant. “It’s just a wasteland,” he added.
Incidentally, Norilsk was established in the mid 1930s as a Siberian labor camp. Life for the people forced to work there would have been pretty miserable, and while labor camps were later outlawed, the city remains, to this day, a challenging place to live.
Russia’s industry-driven pollution problem, however, is by no means limited to outermost Siberia. Today, in fact, three quarters of the country’s surface water – and, startlingly, half of all Russian water – is deemed polluted.
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French-Canadian doom act Norilsk unveils a new music video from their latest album Le passage des glaciers, released through HypnoticDirgeRecords. La voie des morts (The Way of the Dead) is a winter dirge, a black premonition accompanying the dead season. Without a doubt the fastest track on the album, it starts as a cold funeral march, before turning into a blackened procession.
The video was co-directed by Wikked Twist Films, located nearby Regina, and 2700 km-away HVYOne Productions, of Ottawa's area. Erik Labossière of Wikked Twist Films brought his universe of the macabre and the morose to develop a short story revolving around a few characters. Erik comments: “Shooting only a portion of a video and working with footage shot across the country was a unique situation and combining two narratives to create one full story was even moreso. Norilsk is very good at both defining their concept and allowing room for creativity on my part, and I really enjoyed expanding the universe we created in 'La noirceur intérieure' with some references and correlations to that video. I feel that a music video is an opportunity to give a visual palate to an auditory experience, and creating a powerful or intriguing narrative to accent the sound is a best of both worlds scenario. I love shooting this type of concept. A silent film narrated by only the music and message of the artist is such a rewarding and expansive collaboration.”
Nick Richer of Norilsk and HVY One adds: “We've known Erik for a few years now, as we toured with his bands Nachtterror and Altars of Grief, and he directed our previous video 'La noirceur intérieure.' Co-shooting a video is quite a nice feel when you have no idea what the other will come out with. I had high expectations from Erik after seeing his work, and he completely exceeded them. Working with him was a pleasant experience and is looking great for the future.”
Visit Hypnotic Dirge Records to purchase Norilsk's latest album Le passage des glaciers, and get your hands on other merchandise and exclusive packages.
Label :
Site : https://bit.ly/2JWmCh8
Facebook : https://bit.ly/2H8oiGp
Bandcamp : https://bit.ly/2EWlBli
Credits:
Wikked Twist Films 2018
HVY One Productions 2018
The Wikked Twist Films segment of "La voie des morts" featured Amberyl Watson as the protagonist and SarahCameron as the "Ribbon-trap woman." Shooting was assisted by KristinWagner and filmed on a cold day in Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan.
The HVY One Productions segment features Nic Miquelon and Nick Richer, and filmed in the perpetual winter setting of various locations in the Gatineau Park, Quebec.
Norilsk :
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Bandcamp : https://bit.ly/2HclDf2
SoundCloud : https://bit.ly/2qGjVYd
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Norilsk - The Way [Music Video]
From the album: Weepers of the LandReleased: October 12, 2018
Order CD: https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198
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On October 12, doom-death entity Norilsk is set to release a brand new offering; an omen that autumn will be tuned down to doom and the bitter cold. Weepers of the Land is the follow up mini-album to last year's full length Le passage des glaciers, presenting a more abrasive and visceral Norilsk weaving stories of heritage, loss, and displacement through dynamic and atmospheric blackened death-doom metal. Weepers of the Land will be Norilsk’s third installment on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
Vocalist/bassist Nic M. comments: “When we entered Wolf LakeStudio in 2017, we had enough new material to record nearly two albums. We chose to record it all, working with producer Mike Bond once again to explore the spectrum of possibilities and see what this beast would look like before deciding on how we would separate and release the material. On last year's Le passage des glaciers, the songs represented a cold and solitary travel inward, and we kept the more exploratory and collaborative songs for this year's follow up. Weepers of the Land could therefore be seen as the second half of this recording session, one where Norilsk has been cycling inward and outward.”
“The Way” is the first excerpt of Norilsk's 2018 release Weepers of the Land. In a surprisingly short length for the genre, the band delivers the spirit of death and doom, while paying tribute to one of the earliest occult movies filmed on Canadian soil.
Credits: Video and audio excerpts taken from Secrets of Chinatown – The black robe, Northern Films Ltd (1935).
Weepers of the Land track listing:
1. No Sacred Ground
2. The Way
3. Toute la noirceur du monde
4. Tomber 7 fois(Mylène Farmer cover, exclusive to CD)
5. Weepers of the Land
Available October 12, 2018, on Hypnotic Dirge Records.

The Idea (1932 film)

The Idea (French:L'Idée) is a 1932 French animated film by Austro-Hungarian filmmaker Berthold Bartosch (1893–1968), based on the 1920 wordless novel of the same name by Flemish artist Frans Masereel (1889–1972). The protagonist is a naked woman who represents a thinker's idea; as she goes out into the world, the frightened authorities unsuccessfully try to cover up her nudity. A man who stands up for her is executed, and violent suppression by big business greets a workers' revolution she inspires.

Bartosch spent two years animating the film, initially in collaboration with Masereel. Bartosch used complicated techniques with multiple layers of superimposed animation to create the intricately detailed film. The film features an electronic music score by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), possibly the earliest in film history.

Synopsis

A thinker sits by a window, and an idea comes to him in the form of a doll-sized naked woman. The thinker puts the woman in an envelope and sends her out into the world. She finds herself in an office building, where the frightened authorities attempt to clothe her, but she soon sheds the clothing. She becomes involved with a young working class man, and he appeals to the people on her behalf; he is captured and executed, and his coffin is carried through the streets by the people. Another man presses her into a book, and delivers handbills of her to the frightened people. She is captured by a businessman, and armed soldiers are sent to put down a revolution of the people; the people are suppressed, and the woman, now white-haired, becomes a star and drifts into the cosmos.

Australian jazz musician James Morrison referred to The Idea of North as "the best contemporary a cappella group in the country". Morrison and The Idea of North collaborated with Gina Jeffreys on "Blue Christmas" and it's included on Jeffreys' 1999 album, Christmas Wish. In 2005 the group were awarded the awards for best jazz album and best jazz song in the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards.

Norilsk Nickel is headquartered in Moscow and is the world's leading producer of nickel and palladium. It is ranked among the top ten copper producers.

The company is listed on MICEX-RTS. The key shareholders are Vladimir Potanin's Interros and Oleg Deripaska's Rusal: each reportedly owns over 25% of shares. In December 2010, Norilsk offered to buy out Rusal's share for US$12 billion, but the offer was declined.

History

Mining began in the Norilsk area in the 1920s. The Soviet government created the "Norilsk Combine" in 1935 and passed control to the NKVD. In 1943 Norilsk produced 4,000 tons of refined nickel and in 1945 hit the target figure of 10,000 tons. Mining and metal production continued first with Gulag forced labour, later with much volunteer labour owing to the comparatively good wages offered.

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. There are also cases where songs are used in tie in marketing campaigns that allow them to become more than just a song. Tie ins and merchandising could be used in toys are marketing campaigns for food and other products. Although the origins of music videos date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s, they came into prominence in the 1980s when MTV based their format around the medium. Prior to the 1980s, these works were described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip" or "film clip". Since the creation and increased popularity of YouTube, mainstream artists now promote new music videos by releasing trailers of short promos on the site for their upcoming song and music video. Consequentially, YouTube has been converted into a social media platform for celebrities and artists to market themselves to their fans and audiences.

Norilsk - The Idea of North [Full Album] (Death-Doom / Sludge Metal)

Norilsk - The Idea of North [Full Album]
Released: March 10, 2015
Tracklisting:
1 - Japetus (0:00)
2 - Planète heurt (8:11)
3 - Throa (15:50)
4 - La liberté aux ailes brisées (21:46)
5 - Nature morte (27:44)
6 - Potsdam Glo (31:51)
7 - La Grande Noirceur (38:10)
8 - The Idea of North (40:23)
End: 49:34
Order digipack CD: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-The-Idea-of-North/p/46894807/category=6794198
"Name-your-price" download: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-idea-of-north
Named afterSiberia’s northernmost city, home of a famous heavy metal smelting complex, Norilsk is a doom-death band from Gatineau (Québec), Canada. After releasing an EP, Japetus, in July 2014, Norilsk now unveils their debut album - “The Idea of North” in a glorious digipack edition on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
“The Idea of North” is a doom-death album crafted for the winter season: it has slow and crushing riffs, death growls, and atmospheric arrangements. An evocation of an ominous presence over a vast wasteland, “The Idea of North” is a massive offering that triggers the imagination. Its music draws comparison with doom-death bands such as My Dying Bride, Morgion and Ablaze in Hatred, but it also has a few atmospheric sludge/post metal elements reminiscent of Isis and Morne.
Feedback:
"The album, as a whole, is a slow moving glacier, much like the Japetus EP that came before it, but it is much thicker, longer, and brutally unforgiving, not stopping its steady march from the Northern mountains to the Northern ocean, where it will continue as icebergs destined to down ships. It’s a ride that you can’t just hop onto and off of when you are ready. This is an album full of nuance and attention to detail, and should be played as such, preferably with headphones. Throw in a doomed cover of a Belgian pop song, and you’ve got yourself a damn near perfect listen. Beyond recommended, I will probably go through two copies of this album this year alone."
-Crown of Viserys
"And one of the great strengths of 'The Idea Of North' is that it never sounds like a collection of ideas in search of a home: quite the opposite, in fact. There's a completeness in the way it grabs initial attention with the rousing, sludgy stomp of the first half, then evolves into a more chilly and thoughtfully introspective atmospheric beast (in places, even reminiscent of Dolorian); like a snow-fanged apocalypse avalanching across the world, leaving the last survivors huddled in the frozen wastes of its wake. The band call it 'crafted for the winter season', but by the visceral and lonely conclusion of the title track it seems quite possible that winter will be eternal."
-Doom-Metal.com
"This hour-long ode to the Arctic is a monolithic jamfest, through and through. From beginning to end, The Idea of North is a fantastic example of what modern doom metal should sound like. Thick, slow as molasses, and greatly atmospheric, Norilsk’s debut has exactly what it takes to land this band a spot in any doom metal fan’s list of bands to look out for."
-Heavy Blog is Heavy
Additional Norilsk Links:
Norilsk Profile: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk.php
Norilsk Archive / Blog: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk-blog.php
Norilsk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorilskDoom

4:15

Sergey Kumov, Norilsk Nickel - Russian & CIS Metals

Sergey Kumov, Norilsk Nickel - Russian & CIS Metals

Sergey Kumov, Norilsk Nickel - Russian & CIS Metals

NORILSK // PRESENTATION

Norilsk has challenged the very possibility of building a city in the extreme conditions of the North. It has become a world-class industrial center and one of the largest Arctic cities. And what else do we know about Norilsk? Presentation film for internal and external audiences.
Created in collaboration with N3design.

3:37

RUSSIA: NORILSK: ECONOMIC CRISIS THREATENS NICKEL MINING INDUSTRY

RUSSIA: NORILSK: ECONOMIC CRISIS THREATENS NICKEL MINING INDUSTRY

RUSSIA: NORILSK: ECONOMIC CRISIS THREATENS NICKEL MINING INDUSTRY

Russian/Nat
The financial crisis in Russia is about more than just politics - the heart of the Russian economy is straining under the pressure.
Even one of the country's biggest industries, nickel mining, has been put in jeopardy by the mounting difficulties.
Once fully protected, Soviet production was abandoned in 1994 to make way for free market competition - then Russia's financial crisis bit into its competitive appeal.
And now the world's largest nickel producer, Norilsk Nickel, has been left almost helpless as world prices for the metal continue to plummet.
Life in Norilsk is difficult at best, and almost always harrowing.
A city of more than 200-thousand, it is situated in the arctic tundra, where temperatures during the dark winter hover at minus 40 degrees Celsius and nothing grows - not even a tree.
50 years of non-stop mining and smelting has left this scarred city an environmental wasteland.
The air is poisonous and the water contaminated - Norilsk is believed to be the world's biggest source of acid rain.
Norilsk Nickel has spent most of its life under the arm of the Soviet government, originally churning out most of its metals for the Soviet military.
Now, however, Norilsk sells the majority of its product on the world market -- which means it must be competitive.
But since privatisation in 1994, Norilsk with its scores of smelters, mines and production facilities, has suffered one financial tragedy after another.
The factory's new owners are a Russian bank, itself nearly destroyed by the recent ruble devaluation.
It now has the massive and perhaps impossible task of turning a massive state subsidy into a profit making industry.
When the mine went private its new owners inherited a long list of problems, the biggest, all the social burdens of maintaining the city of Norilsk, from public transport, to hospitals, to kindergartens.
All of those costs make producing metal in Russia an extremely expensive business.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
"Norilsk Nickel has to answer for all of the town's social structure. Unfortunately that is just what history has left us. And without the company supporting the town, that is if we just abandoned those responsibilities, it is clear that the town of Norilsk would cease to exist. We cant just leave our workers, we have a responsibility to them. This is a very heavy load but we are doing our best to slowly transfer much of this responsibility to the government."
SUPERCAPTION: Alexander Bururhin, Chief Economist and HeadEngineer of Norilsk Nickel Factories
Despite all the company funding, life in Norilsk is hard.
Housed in crumbling apartment blocks, most workers never leave the factory - day after day it's often the only thing they see.
But the standard of living in Russia has fallen so low that these days most Norilsk residents feel grateful they have a job at all -- and that they are paid their wages on time.
During Soviet times citizens from all over the Union happily signed up for three to five year high-wage contracts in Norilsk's smelters and mines.
The idea was to work hard, save money and head back to the mainland.
But after the economy collapsed, industry across Russia has ground to a halt.
Most of those who came to Norilsk never got out. And they probably never will.
That makes for an ironic twist -- Norilsk was an icy prison camp before it was turned into the Soviet star of metals production.
Today many feel they are stuck in a modern financial gulag.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
SUPERCAPTION: Pavel Chernozhukov, Worker
Norilsk provides almost half the world's supply of nickel.
But despite its amazing resources, production costs are enormous.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
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NORNICKEL // OUR METALS

This Russian River Mysteriously Turned Blood Red Then A Nickel Plant Revealed The Horrible Truth

This Russian River Mysteriously Turned Blood Red Then A Nickel Plant Revealed The Horrible Truth

This Russian River Mysteriously Turned Blood Red Then A Nickel Plant Revealed The Horrible Truth

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The Daldykan River runs right past the Russian settlement of Norilsk, the world’s most northerly city. Remote it may be, but Norilsk, which sits firmly inside the Arctic Circle, is home to over 100,000 people. And, as of recently, it took center stage in an environmental scandal that’s captured the world’s attention.
The scandal occurred at the beginning of September 2016. Norilsk locals had noticed that the Daldykan River – normally so lovely and so blue – had turned a distressing shade of blood red. And, although the river is unconnected to the city’s water supply, residents deemed the color strange enough to share on Russian social media.
The RussianMinistry of Natural Resources and Environment subsequently promised to investigate the phenomenon. Its theory was that the red hue could be the result of a leak from the nearby Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant.
Others, however, believed that the color had been caused by a deliberate chemical runoff from the same plant. Others still blamed the incident on a combination of the facility’s wastewater mixing with mineral ore. But, whichever way you cut it, everybody was pointing the finger at the nickel plant.
This wasn’t, in fact, the first time that pollution had been blamed for weird events in this part of Siberia. Certainly, the region has many mines that tap into its rich deposits of copper, nickel and silvery-white palladium.
This wealth of natural resources, then, comes at a cost to the environment. Indeed, mining the metals means that over four million tons of pollutants – including arsenic and lead – are belched into the atmosphere from Norilsk each year.
Environmentalist Richard Fuller, the president of the Blacksmith Institute, told TIME that “there’s not a single living tree” within a 30-mile radius of the Nadezhda plant. “It’s just a wasteland,” he added.
Incidentally, Norilsk was established in the mid 1930s as a Siberian labor camp. Life for the people forced to work there would have been pretty miserable, and while labor camps were later outlawed, the city remains, to this day, a challenging place to live.
Russia’s industry-driven pollution problem, however, is by no means limited to outermost Siberia. Today, in fact, three quarters of the country’s surface water – and, startlingly, half of all Russian water – is deemed polluted.
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NORILSK - La Voie Des Morts | Official Clip (2018)

NORILSK - La Voie Des Morts | Official Clip (2018)

NORILSK - La Voie Des Morts | Official Clip (2018)

French-Canadian doom act Norilsk unveils a new music video from their latest album Le passage des glaciers, released through HypnoticDirgeRecords. La voie des morts (The Way of the Dead) is a winter dirge, a black premonition accompanying the dead season. Without a doubt the fastest track on the album, it starts as a cold funeral march, before turning into a blackened procession.
The video was co-directed by Wikked Twist Films, located nearby Regina, and 2700 km-away HVYOne Productions, of Ottawa's area. Erik Labossière of Wikked Twist Films brought his universe of the macabre and the morose to develop a short story revolving around a few characters. Erik comments: “Shooting only a portion of a video and working with footage shot across the country was a unique situation and combining two narratives to create one full story was even moreso. Norilsk is very good at both defining their concept and allowing room for creativity on my part, and I really enjoyed expanding the universe we created in 'La noirceur intérieure' with some references and correlations to that video. I feel that a music video is an opportunity to give a visual palate to an auditory experience, and creating a powerful or intriguing narrative to accent the sound is a best of both worlds scenario. I love shooting this type of concept. A silent film narrated by only the music and message of the artist is such a rewarding and expansive collaboration.”
Nick Richer of Norilsk and HVY One adds: “We've known Erik for a few years now, as we toured with his bands Nachtterror and Altars of Grief, and he directed our previous video 'La noirceur intérieure.' Co-shooting a video is quite a nice feel when you have no idea what the other will come out with. I had high expectations from Erik after seeing his work, and he completely exceeded them. Working with him was a pleasant experience and is looking great for the future.”
Visit Hypnotic Dirge Records to purchase Norilsk's latest album Le passage des glaciers, and get your hands on other merchandise and exclusive packages.
Label :
Site : https://bit.ly/2JWmCh8
Facebook : https://bit.ly/2H8oiGp
Bandcamp : https://bit.ly/2EWlBli
Credits:
Wikked Twist Films 2018
HVY One Productions 2018
The Wikked Twist Films segment of "La voie des morts" featured Amberyl Watson as the protagonist and SarahCameron as the "Ribbon-trap woman." Shooting was assisted by KristinWagner and filmed on a cold day in Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan.
The HVY One Productions segment features Nic Miquelon and Nick Richer, and filmed in the perpetual winter setting of various locations in the Gatineau Park, Quebec.
Norilsk :
Facebook : https://bit.ly/2Ha86EO
Bandcamp : https://bit.ly/2HclDf2
SoundCloud : https://bit.ly/2qGjVYd
Scholomance Promotion / Webzine :
Site: http://bit.ly/SCHOLOzine
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/BCScholo
Facebook: http://bit.ly/Scholowbzine

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NORNICKEL // 80 YEARS IN THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC

NORNICKEL // 80 YEARS IN THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC

NORNICKEL // 80 YEARS IN THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC

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Norilsk - The Way [Music Video] (Doom Death Metal)

Norilsk - The Way [Music Video] (Doom Death Metal)

Norilsk - The Way [Music Video] (Doom Death Metal)

Norilsk - The Way [Music Video]
From the album: Weepers of the LandReleased: October 12, 2018
Order CD: https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198
Digital [Name-your-price]: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/weepers-of-the-land
***
On October 12, doom-death entity Norilsk is set to release a brand new offering; an omen that autumn will be tuned down to doom and the bitter cold. Weepers of the Land is the follow up mini-album to last year's full length Le passage des glaciers, presenting a more abrasive and visceral Norilsk weaving stories of heritage, loss, and displacement through dynamic and atmospheric blackened death-doom metal. Weepers of the Land will be Norilsk’s third installment on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
Vocalist/bassist Nic M. comments: “When we entered Wolf LakeStudio in 2017, we had enough new material to record nearly two albums. We chose to record it all, working with producer Mike Bond once again to explore the spectrum of possibilities and see what this beast would look like before deciding on how we would separate and release the material. On last year's Le passage des glaciers, the songs represented a cold and solitary travel inward, and we kept the more exploratory and collaborative songs for this year's follow up. Weepers of the Land could therefore be seen as the second half of this recording session, one where Norilsk has been cycling inward and outward.”
“The Way” is the first excerpt of Norilsk's 2018 release Weepers of the Land. In a surprisingly short length for the genre, the band delivers the spirit of death and doom, while paying tribute to one of the earliest occult movies filmed on Canadian soil.
Credits: Video and audio excerpts taken from Secrets of Chinatown – The black robe, Northern Films Ltd (1935).
Weepers of the Land track listing:
1. No Sacred Ground
2. The Way
3. Toute la noirceur du monde
4. Tomber 7 fois(Mylène Farmer cover, exclusive to CD)
5. Weepers of the Land
Available October 12, 2018, on Hypnotic Dirge Records.

Norilsk - Metal Devastation Radio - Interview

Norilsk - Japetus [Music Video] (Doom Death Metal)

1 - Norilsk - Japetus [OfficialMusic Video]
From the album: The Idea of North
Filmed and directed by Petr Maur.
Petr Maur Productions 2015
PetrMaur@yahoo.ca
The Japetus music video is an artistic collaboration between Norilsk and film producer Petr Maur, from Ottawa. Petr used drummer Nick Richer as the main character for his movie "Horsehead", and Norilsk's music as soundtrack. This music video is a short version of his movie, adapted to the song's length.
Order digipack CD: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-The-Idea-of-North/p/46894807/category=6794198
Free streaming / download: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-idea-of-north
Named afterSiberia’s northernmost city, home of a famous heavy metal smelting complex, Norilsk is a doom-death band from Gatineau (Québec), Canada. After releasing an EP, Japetus, in July 2014, Norilsk now unveils their debut album - “The Idea of North” in a glorious digipack edition on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
“The Idea of North” is a doom-death album crafted for the winter season: it has slow and crushing riffs, death growls, and atmospheric arrangements. An evocation of an ominous presence over a vast wasteland, “The Idea of North” is a massive offering that triggers the imagination. Its music draws comparison with doom-death bands such as My Dying Bride, Morgion and Ablaze in Hatred, but it also has a few atmospheric sludge/post metal elements reminiscent of Isis and Morne.
Feedback:
"The album, as a whole, is a slow moving glacier, much like the Japetus EP that came before it, but it is much thicker, longer, and brutally unforgiving, not stopping its steady march from the Northern mountains to the Northern ocean, where it will continue as icebergs destined to down ships. It’s a ride that you can’t just hop onto and off of when you are ready. This is an album full of nuance and attention to detail, and should be played as such, preferably with headphones. Throw in a doomed cover of a Belgian pop song, and you’ve got yourself a damn near perfect listen. Beyond recommended, I will probably go through two copies of this album this year alone."
-Crown of Viserys
"And one of the great strengths of 'The Idea Of North' is that it never sounds like a collection of ideas in search of a home: quite the opposite, in fact. There's a completeness in the way it grabs initial attention with the rousing, sludgy stomp of the first half, then evolves into a more chilly and thoughtfully introspective atmospheric beast (in places, even reminiscent of Dolorian); like a snow-fanged apocalypse avalanching across the world, leaving the last survivors huddled in the frozen wastes of its wake. The band call it 'crafted for the winter season', but by the visceral and lonely conclusion of the title track it seems quite possible that winter will be eternal."
-Doom-Metal.com
"This hour-long ode to the Arctic is a monolithic jamfest, through and through. From beginning to end, The Idea of North is a fantastic example of what modern doom metal should sound like. Thick, slow as molasses, and greatly atmospheric, Norilsk’s debut has exactly what it takes to land this band a spot in any doom metal fan’s list of bands to look out for."
-Heavy Blog is Heavy
Additional Norilsk Links:
Norilsk Profile: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk.php
Norilsk Archive / Blog: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk-blog.php
Norilsk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorilskDoom

Sergey Kumov, Norilsk Nickel - Russian & CIS Metals

NORILSK // PRESENTATION

Norilsk has challenged the very possibility of building a city in the extreme conditions of the North. It has become a world-class industrial center and one of the largest Arctic cities. And what else do we know about Norilsk? Presentation film for internal and external audiences.
Created in collaboration with N3design.

published: 27 Feb 2018

RUSSIA: NORILSK: ECONOMIC CRISIS THREATENS NICKEL MINING INDUSTRY

Russian/Nat
The financial crisis in Russia is about more than just politics - the heart of the Russian economy is straining under the pressure.
Even one of the country's biggest industries, nickel mining, has been put in jeopardy by the mounting difficulties.
Once fully protected, Soviet production was abandoned in 1994 to make way for free market competition - then Russia's financial crisis bit into its competitive appeal.
And now the world's largest nickel producer, Norilsk Nickel, has been left almost helpless as world prices for the metal continue to plummet.
Life in Norilsk is difficult at best, and almost always harrowing.
A city of more than 200-thousand, it is situated in the arctic tundra, where temperatures during the dark winter hover at minus 40 degrees Cel...

NORNICKEL // OUR METALS

published: 27 Feb 2018

This Russian River Mysteriously Turned Blood Red Then A Nickel Plant Revealed The Horrible Truth

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The Daldykan River runs right past the Russian settlement of Norilsk, the world’s most northerly city. Remote it may be, but Norilsk, which sits firmly inside the Arctic Circle, is home to over 100,000 people. And, as of recently, it took center stage in an environmental scandal that’s captured the world’s attention.
The scandal occurred at the beginning of September 2016. Norilsk locals had noticed that the Daldykan River – normally so lovely and so blue – had turned a distressing shade of blood red. And, although the river is unconnected to the city’s water supply, residents deemed the color strange enough to share ...

published: 09 Jun 2018

NORILSK - La Voie Des Morts | Official Clip (2018)

French-Canadian doom act Norilsk unveils a new music video from their latest album Le passage des glaciers, released through HypnoticDirgeRecords. La voie des morts (The Way of the Dead) is a winter dirge, a black premonition accompanying the dead season. Without a doubt the fastest track on the album, it starts as a cold funeral march, before turning into a blackened procession.
The video was co-directed by Wikked Twist Films, located nearby Regina, and 2700 km-away HVYOne Productions, of Ottawa's area. Erik Labossière of Wikked Twist Films brought his universe of the macabre and the morose to develop a short story revolving around a few characters. Erik comments: “Shooting only a portion of a video and working with footage shot across the country was a unique situation and combining ...

published: 18 Apr 2018

NORNICKEL // 80 YEARS IN THE RUSSIAN ARCTIC

published: 27 Feb 2018

Norilsk - The Way [Music Video] (Doom Death Metal)

Norilsk - The Way [Music Video]
From the album: Weepers of the LandReleased: October 12, 2018
Order CD: https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198
Digital [Name-your-price]: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/weepers-of-the-land
***
On October 12, doom-death entity Norilsk is set to release a brand new offering; an omen that autumn will be tuned down to doom and the bitter cold. Weepers of the Land is the follow up mini-album to last year's full length Le passage des glaciers, presenting a more abrasive and visceral Norilsk weaving stories of heritage, loss, and displacem...

Norilsk

Norilsk - Metal Devastation Radio - Interview

Norilsk - Japetus [Music Video] (Doom Death Metal)

1 - Norilsk - Japetus [OfficialMusic Video]
From the album: The Idea of North
Filmed and directed by Petr Maur.
Petr Maur Productions 2015
PetrMaur@yahoo.ca
The Japetus music video is an artistic collaboration between Norilsk and film producer Petr Maur, from Ottawa. Petr used drummer Nick Richer as the main character for his movie "Horsehead", and Norilsk's music as soundtrack. This music video is a short version of his movie, adapted to the song's length.
Order digipack CD: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-The-Idea-of-North/p/46894807/category=6794198
Free streaming / download: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-idea-of-north
Named afterSiberia’s northernmost city, home of a famous heavy metal smelting complex, Norilsk is a...

Norilsk - The Idea of North [Full Album]
Released: March 10, 2015
Tracklisting:
1 - Japetus (0:00)
2 - Planète heurt (8:11)
3 - Throa (15:50)
4 - La liberté aux ailes brisées (21:46)
5 - Nature morte (27:44)
6 - Potsdam Glo (31:51)
7 - La Grande Noirceur (38:10)
8 - The Idea of North (40:23)
End: 49:34
Order digipack CD: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-The-Idea-of-North/p/46894807/category=6794198
"Name-your-price" download: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-idea-of-north
Named afterSiberia’s northernmost city, home of a famous heavy metal smelting complex, Norilsk is a doom-death band from Gatineau (Québec), Canada. After releasing an EP, Japetus, in July 2014, Norilsk now unveils their debut album - “The Idea of North” in a glorious digipack edition on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
“The Idea of North” is a doom-death album crafted for the winter season: it has slow and crushing riffs, death growls, and atmospheric arrangements. An evocation of an ominous presence over a vast wasteland, “The Idea of North” is a massive offering that triggers the imagination. Its music draws comparison with doom-death bands such as My Dying Bride, Morgion and Ablaze in Hatred, but it also has a few atmospheric sludge/post metal elements reminiscent of Isis and Morne.
Feedback:
"The album, as a whole, is a slow moving glacier, much like the Japetus EP that came before it, but it is much thicker, longer, and brutally unforgiving, not stopping its steady march from the Northern mountains to the Northern ocean, where it will continue as icebergs destined to down ships. It’s a ride that you can’t just hop onto and off of when you are ready. This is an album full of nuance and attention to detail, and should be played as such, preferably with headphones. Throw in a doomed cover of a Belgian pop song, and you’ve got yourself a damn near perfect listen. Beyond recommended, I will probably go through two copies of this album this year alone."
-Crown of Viserys
"And one of the great strengths of 'The Idea Of North' is that it never sounds like a collection of ideas in search of a home: quite the opposite, in fact. There's a completeness in the way it grabs initial attention with the rousing, sludgy stomp of the first half, then evolves into a more chilly and thoughtfully introspective atmospheric beast (in places, even reminiscent of Dolorian); like a snow-fanged apocalypse avalanching across the world, leaving the last survivors huddled in the frozen wastes of its wake. The band call it 'crafted for the winter season', but by the visceral and lonely conclusion of the title track it seems quite possible that winter will be eternal."
-Doom-Metal.com
"This hour-long ode to the Arctic is a monolithic jamfest, through and through. From beginning to end, The Idea of North is a fantastic example of what modern doom metal should sound like. Thick, slow as molasses, and greatly atmospheric, Norilsk’s debut has exactly what it takes to land this band a spot in any doom metal fan’s list of bands to look out for."
-Heavy Blog is Heavy
Additional Norilsk Links:
Norilsk Profile: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk.php
Norilsk Archive / Blog: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk-blog.php
Norilsk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorilskDoom

Norilsk - The Idea of North [Full Album]
Released: March 10, 2015
Tracklisting:
1 - Japetus (0:00)
2 - Planète heurt (8:11)
3 - Throa (15:50)
4 - La liberté aux ailes brisées (21:46)
5 - Nature morte (27:44)
6 - Potsdam Glo (31:51)
7 - La Grande Noirceur (38:10)
8 - The Idea of North (40:23)
End: 49:34
Order digipack CD: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-The-Idea-of-North/p/46894807/category=6794198
"Name-your-price" download: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-idea-of-north
Named afterSiberia’s northernmost city, home of a famous heavy metal smelting complex, Norilsk is a doom-death band from Gatineau (Québec), Canada. After releasing an EP, Japetus, in July 2014, Norilsk now unveils their debut album - “The Idea of North” in a glorious digipack edition on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
“The Idea of North” is a doom-death album crafted for the winter season: it has slow and crushing riffs, death growls, and atmospheric arrangements. An evocation of an ominous presence over a vast wasteland, “The Idea of North” is a massive offering that triggers the imagination. Its music draws comparison with doom-death bands such as My Dying Bride, Morgion and Ablaze in Hatred, but it also has a few atmospheric sludge/post metal elements reminiscent of Isis and Morne.
Feedback:
"The album, as a whole, is a slow moving glacier, much like the Japetus EP that came before it, but it is much thicker, longer, and brutally unforgiving, not stopping its steady march from the Northern mountains to the Northern ocean, where it will continue as icebergs destined to down ships. It’s a ride that you can’t just hop onto and off of when you are ready. This is an album full of nuance and attention to detail, and should be played as such, preferably with headphones. Throw in a doomed cover of a Belgian pop song, and you’ve got yourself a damn near perfect listen. Beyond recommended, I will probably go through two copies of this album this year alone."
-Crown of Viserys
"And one of the great strengths of 'The Idea Of North' is that it never sounds like a collection of ideas in search of a home: quite the opposite, in fact. There's a completeness in the way it grabs initial attention with the rousing, sludgy stomp of the first half, then evolves into a more chilly and thoughtfully introspective atmospheric beast (in places, even reminiscent of Dolorian); like a snow-fanged apocalypse avalanching across the world, leaving the last survivors huddled in the frozen wastes of its wake. The band call it 'crafted for the winter season', but by the visceral and lonely conclusion of the title track it seems quite possible that winter will be eternal."
-Doom-Metal.com
"This hour-long ode to the Arctic is a monolithic jamfest, through and through. From beginning to end, The Idea of North is a fantastic example of what modern doom metal should sound like. Thick, slow as molasses, and greatly atmospheric, Norilsk’s debut has exactly what it takes to land this band a spot in any doom metal fan’s list of bands to look out for."
-Heavy Blog is Heavy
Additional Norilsk Links:
Norilsk Profile: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk.php
Norilsk Archive / Blog: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk-blog.php
Norilsk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorilskDoom

NORILSK // PRESENTATION

Norilsk has challenged the very possibility of building a city in the extreme conditions of the North. It has become a world-class industrial center and one of ...

Norilsk has challenged the very possibility of building a city in the extreme conditions of the North. It has become a world-class industrial center and one of the largest Arctic cities. And what else do we know about Norilsk? Presentation film for internal and external audiences.
Created in collaboration with N3design.

Norilsk has challenged the very possibility of building a city in the extreme conditions of the North. It has become a world-class industrial center and one of the largest Arctic cities. And what else do we know about Norilsk? Presentation film for internal and external audiences.
Created in collaboration with N3design.

Russian/Nat
The financial crisis in Russia is about more than just politics - the heart of the Russian economy is straining under the pressure.
Even one of the country's biggest industries, nickel mining, has been put in jeopardy by the mounting difficulties.
Once fully protected, Soviet production was abandoned in 1994 to make way for free market competition - then Russia's financial crisis bit into its competitive appeal.
And now the world's largest nickel producer, Norilsk Nickel, has been left almost helpless as world prices for the metal continue to plummet.
Life in Norilsk is difficult at best, and almost always harrowing.
A city of more than 200-thousand, it is situated in the arctic tundra, where temperatures during the dark winter hover at minus 40 degrees Celsius and nothing grows - not even a tree.
50 years of non-stop mining and smelting has left this scarred city an environmental wasteland.
The air is poisonous and the water contaminated - Norilsk is believed to be the world's biggest source of acid rain.
Norilsk Nickel has spent most of its life under the arm of the Soviet government, originally churning out most of its metals for the Soviet military.
Now, however, Norilsk sells the majority of its product on the world market -- which means it must be competitive.
But since privatisation in 1994, Norilsk with its scores of smelters, mines and production facilities, has suffered one financial tragedy after another.
The factory's new owners are a Russian bank, itself nearly destroyed by the recent ruble devaluation.
It now has the massive and perhaps impossible task of turning a massive state subsidy into a profit making industry.
When the mine went private its new owners inherited a long list of problems, the biggest, all the social burdens of maintaining the city of Norilsk, from public transport, to hospitals, to kindergartens.
All of those costs make producing metal in Russia an extremely expensive business.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
"Norilsk Nickel has to answer for all of the town's social structure. Unfortunately that is just what history has left us. And without the company supporting the town, that is if we just abandoned those responsibilities, it is clear that the town of Norilsk would cease to exist. We cant just leave our workers, we have a responsibility to them. This is a very heavy load but we are doing our best to slowly transfer much of this responsibility to the government."
SUPERCAPTION: Alexander Bururhin, Chief Economist and HeadEngineer of Norilsk Nickel Factories
Despite all the company funding, life in Norilsk is hard.
Housed in crumbling apartment blocks, most workers never leave the factory - day after day it's often the only thing they see.
But the standard of living in Russia has fallen so low that these days most Norilsk residents feel grateful they have a job at all -- and that they are paid their wages on time.
During Soviet times citizens from all over the Union happily signed up for three to five year high-wage contracts in Norilsk's smelters and mines.
The idea was to work hard, save money and head back to the mainland.
But after the economy collapsed, industry across Russia has ground to a halt.
Most of those who came to Norilsk never got out. And they probably never will.
That makes for an ironic twist -- Norilsk was an icy prison camp before it was turned into the Soviet star of metals production.
Today many feel they are stuck in a modern financial gulag.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
SUPERCAPTION: Pavel Chernozhukov, Worker
Norilsk provides almost half the world's supply of nickel.
But despite its amazing resources, production costs are enormous.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e903726ff5737a6a3fbc76039b4f9114
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

Russian/Nat
The financial crisis in Russia is about more than just politics - the heart of the Russian economy is straining under the pressure.
Even one of the country's biggest industries, nickel mining, has been put in jeopardy by the mounting difficulties.
Once fully protected, Soviet production was abandoned in 1994 to make way for free market competition - then Russia's financial crisis bit into its competitive appeal.
And now the world's largest nickel producer, Norilsk Nickel, has been left almost helpless as world prices for the metal continue to plummet.
Life in Norilsk is difficult at best, and almost always harrowing.
A city of more than 200-thousand, it is situated in the arctic tundra, where temperatures during the dark winter hover at minus 40 degrees Celsius and nothing grows - not even a tree.
50 years of non-stop mining and smelting has left this scarred city an environmental wasteland.
The air is poisonous and the water contaminated - Norilsk is believed to be the world's biggest source of acid rain.
Norilsk Nickel has spent most of its life under the arm of the Soviet government, originally churning out most of its metals for the Soviet military.
Now, however, Norilsk sells the majority of its product on the world market -- which means it must be competitive.
But since privatisation in 1994, Norilsk with its scores of smelters, mines and production facilities, has suffered one financial tragedy after another.
The factory's new owners are a Russian bank, itself nearly destroyed by the recent ruble devaluation.
It now has the massive and perhaps impossible task of turning a massive state subsidy into a profit making industry.
When the mine went private its new owners inherited a long list of problems, the biggest, all the social burdens of maintaining the city of Norilsk, from public transport, to hospitals, to kindergartens.
All of those costs make producing metal in Russia an extremely expensive business.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
"Norilsk Nickel has to answer for all of the town's social structure. Unfortunately that is just what history has left us. And without the company supporting the town, that is if we just abandoned those responsibilities, it is clear that the town of Norilsk would cease to exist. We cant just leave our workers, we have a responsibility to them. This is a very heavy load but we are doing our best to slowly transfer much of this responsibility to the government."
SUPERCAPTION: Alexander Bururhin, Chief Economist and HeadEngineer of Norilsk Nickel Factories
Despite all the company funding, life in Norilsk is hard.
Housed in crumbling apartment blocks, most workers never leave the factory - day after day it's often the only thing they see.
But the standard of living in Russia has fallen so low that these days most Norilsk residents feel grateful they have a job at all -- and that they are paid their wages on time.
During Soviet times citizens from all over the Union happily signed up for three to five year high-wage contracts in Norilsk's smelters and mines.
The idea was to work hard, save money and head back to the mainland.
But after the economy collapsed, industry across Russia has ground to a halt.
Most of those who came to Norilsk never got out. And they probably never will.
That makes for an ironic twist -- Norilsk was an icy prison camp before it was turned into the Soviet star of metals production.
Today many feel they are stuck in a modern financial gulag.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
SUPERCAPTION: Pavel Chernozhukov, Worker
Norilsk provides almost half the world's supply of nickel.
But despite its amazing resources, production costs are enormous.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e903726ff5737a6a3fbc76039b4f9114
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

This Russian River Mysteriously Turned Blood Red Then A Nickel Plant Revealed The Horrible Truth

Please do not forget to visit the site http://scribol.com
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Please do not forget to visit the site http://scribol.com
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The Daldykan River runs right past the Russian settlement of Norilsk, the world’s most northerly city. Remote it may be, but Norilsk, which sits firmly inside the Arctic Circle, is home to over 100,000 people. And, as of recently, it took center stage in an environmental scandal that’s captured the world’s attention.
The scandal occurred at the beginning of September 2016. Norilsk locals had noticed that the Daldykan River – normally so lovely and so blue – had turned a distressing shade of blood red. And, although the river is unconnected to the city’s water supply, residents deemed the color strange enough to share on Russian social media.
The RussianMinistry of Natural Resources and Environment subsequently promised to investigate the phenomenon. Its theory was that the red hue could be the result of a leak from the nearby Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant.
Others, however, believed that the color had been caused by a deliberate chemical runoff from the same plant. Others still blamed the incident on a combination of the facility’s wastewater mixing with mineral ore. But, whichever way you cut it, everybody was pointing the finger at the nickel plant.
This wasn’t, in fact, the first time that pollution had been blamed for weird events in this part of Siberia. Certainly, the region has many mines that tap into its rich deposits of copper, nickel and silvery-white palladium.
This wealth of natural resources, then, comes at a cost to the environment. Indeed, mining the metals means that over four million tons of pollutants – including arsenic and lead – are belched into the atmosphere from Norilsk each year.
Environmentalist Richard Fuller, the president of the Blacksmith Institute, told TIME that “there’s not a single living tree” within a 30-mile radius of the Nadezhda plant. “It’s just a wasteland,” he added.
Incidentally, Norilsk was established in the mid 1930s as a Siberian labor camp. Life for the people forced to work there would have been pretty miserable, and while labor camps were later outlawed, the city remains, to this day, a challenging place to live.
Russia’s industry-driven pollution problem, however, is by no means limited to outermost Siberia. Today, in fact, three quarters of the country’s surface water – and, startlingly, half of all Russian water – is deemed polluted.
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The Daldykan River runs right past the Russian settlement of Norilsk, the world’s most northerly city. Remote it may be, but Norilsk, which sits firmly inside the Arctic Circle, is home to over 100,000 people. And, as of recently, it took center stage in an environmental scandal that’s captured the world’s attention.
The scandal occurred at the beginning of September 2016. Norilsk locals had noticed that the Daldykan River – normally so lovely and so blue – had turned a distressing shade of blood red. And, although the river is unconnected to the city’s water supply, residents deemed the color strange enough to share on Russian social media.
The RussianMinistry of Natural Resources and Environment subsequently promised to investigate the phenomenon. Its theory was that the red hue could be the result of a leak from the nearby Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant.
Others, however, believed that the color had been caused by a deliberate chemical runoff from the same plant. Others still blamed the incident on a combination of the facility’s wastewater mixing with mineral ore. But, whichever way you cut it, everybody was pointing the finger at the nickel plant.
This wasn’t, in fact, the first time that pollution had been blamed for weird events in this part of Siberia. Certainly, the region has many mines that tap into its rich deposits of copper, nickel and silvery-white palladium.
This wealth of natural resources, then, comes at a cost to the environment. Indeed, mining the metals means that over four million tons of pollutants – including arsenic and lead – are belched into the atmosphere from Norilsk each year.
Environmentalist Richard Fuller, the president of the Blacksmith Institute, told TIME that “there’s not a single living tree” within a 30-mile radius of the Nadezhda plant. “It’s just a wasteland,” he added.
Incidentally, Norilsk was established in the mid 1930s as a Siberian labor camp. Life for the people forced to work there would have been pretty miserable, and while labor camps were later outlawed, the city remains, to this day, a challenging place to live.
Russia’s industry-driven pollution problem, however, is by no means limited to outermost Siberia. Today, in fact, three quarters of the country’s surface water – and, startlingly, half of all Russian water – is deemed polluted.
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French-Canadian doom act Norilsk unveils a new music video from their latest album Le passage des glaciers, released through HypnoticDirgeRecords. La voie des morts (The Way of the Dead) is a winter dirge, a black premonition accompanying the dead season. Without a doubt the fastest track on the album, it starts as a cold funeral march, before turning into a blackened procession.
The video was co-directed by Wikked Twist Films, located nearby Regina, and 2700 km-away HVYOne Productions, of Ottawa's area. Erik Labossière of Wikked Twist Films brought his universe of the macabre and the morose to develop a short story revolving around a few characters. Erik comments: “Shooting only a portion of a video and working with footage shot across the country was a unique situation and combining two narratives to create one full story was even moreso. Norilsk is very good at both defining their concept and allowing room for creativity on my part, and I really enjoyed expanding the universe we created in 'La noirceur intérieure' with some references and correlations to that video. I feel that a music video is an opportunity to give a visual palate to an auditory experience, and creating a powerful or intriguing narrative to accent the sound is a best of both worlds scenario. I love shooting this type of concept. A silent film narrated by only the music and message of the artist is such a rewarding and expansive collaboration.”
Nick Richer of Norilsk and HVY One adds: “We've known Erik for a few years now, as we toured with his bands Nachtterror and Altars of Grief, and he directed our previous video 'La noirceur intérieure.' Co-shooting a video is quite a nice feel when you have no idea what the other will come out with. I had high expectations from Erik after seeing his work, and he completely exceeded them. Working with him was a pleasant experience and is looking great for the future.”
Visit Hypnotic Dirge Records to purchase Norilsk's latest album Le passage des glaciers, and get your hands on other merchandise and exclusive packages.
Label :
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Facebook : https://bit.ly/2H8oiGp
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Credits:
Wikked Twist Films 2018
HVY One Productions 2018
The Wikked Twist Films segment of "La voie des morts" featured Amberyl Watson as the protagonist and SarahCameron as the "Ribbon-trap woman." Shooting was assisted by KristinWagner and filmed on a cold day in Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan.
The HVY One Productions segment features Nic Miquelon and Nick Richer, and filmed in the perpetual winter setting of various locations in the Gatineau Park, Quebec.
Norilsk :
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Bandcamp : https://bit.ly/2HclDf2
SoundCloud : https://bit.ly/2qGjVYd
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French-Canadian doom act Norilsk unveils a new music video from their latest album Le passage des glaciers, released through HypnoticDirgeRecords. La voie des morts (The Way of the Dead) is a winter dirge, a black premonition accompanying the dead season. Without a doubt the fastest track on the album, it starts as a cold funeral march, before turning into a blackened procession.
The video was co-directed by Wikked Twist Films, located nearby Regina, and 2700 km-away HVYOne Productions, of Ottawa's area. Erik Labossière of Wikked Twist Films brought his universe of the macabre and the morose to develop a short story revolving around a few characters. Erik comments: “Shooting only a portion of a video and working with footage shot across the country was a unique situation and combining two narratives to create one full story was even moreso. Norilsk is very good at both defining their concept and allowing room for creativity on my part, and I really enjoyed expanding the universe we created in 'La noirceur intérieure' with some references and correlations to that video. I feel that a music video is an opportunity to give a visual palate to an auditory experience, and creating a powerful or intriguing narrative to accent the sound is a best of both worlds scenario. I love shooting this type of concept. A silent film narrated by only the music and message of the artist is such a rewarding and expansive collaboration.”
Nick Richer of Norilsk and HVY One adds: “We've known Erik for a few years now, as we toured with his bands Nachtterror and Altars of Grief, and he directed our previous video 'La noirceur intérieure.' Co-shooting a video is quite a nice feel when you have no idea what the other will come out with. I had high expectations from Erik after seeing his work, and he completely exceeded them. Working with him was a pleasant experience and is looking great for the future.”
Visit Hypnotic Dirge Records to purchase Norilsk's latest album Le passage des glaciers, and get your hands on other merchandise and exclusive packages.
Label :
Site : https://bit.ly/2JWmCh8
Facebook : https://bit.ly/2H8oiGp
Bandcamp : https://bit.ly/2EWlBli
Credits:
Wikked Twist Films 2018
HVY One Productions 2018
The Wikked Twist Films segment of "La voie des morts" featured Amberyl Watson as the protagonist and SarahCameron as the "Ribbon-trap woman." Shooting was assisted by KristinWagner and filmed on a cold day in Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan.
The HVY One Productions segment features Nic Miquelon and Nick Richer, and filmed in the perpetual winter setting of various locations in the Gatineau Park, Quebec.
Norilsk :
Facebook : https://bit.ly/2Ha86EO
Bandcamp : https://bit.ly/2HclDf2
SoundCloud : https://bit.ly/2qGjVYd
Scholomance Promotion / Webzine :
Site: http://bit.ly/SCHOLOzine
Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/BCScholo
Facebook: http://bit.ly/Scholowbzine

Norilsk - The Way [Music Video]
From the album: Weepers of the LandReleased: October 12, 2018
Order CD: https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198
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On October 12, doom-death entity Norilsk is set to release a brand new offering; an omen that autumn will be tuned down to doom and the bitter cold. Weepers of the Land is the follow up mini-album to last year's full length Le passage des glaciers, presenting a more abrasive and visceral Norilsk weaving stories of heritage, loss, and displacement through dynamic and atmospheric blackened death-doom metal. Weepers of the Land will be Norilsk’s third installment on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
Vocalist/bassist Nic M. comments: “When we entered Wolf LakeStudio in 2017, we had enough new material to record nearly two albums. We chose to record it all, working with producer Mike Bond once again to explore the spectrum of possibilities and see what this beast would look like before deciding on how we would separate and release the material. On last year's Le passage des glaciers, the songs represented a cold and solitary travel inward, and we kept the more exploratory and collaborative songs for this year's follow up. Weepers of the Land could therefore be seen as the second half of this recording session, one where Norilsk has been cycling inward and outward.”
“The Way” is the first excerpt of Norilsk's 2018 release Weepers of the Land. In a surprisingly short length for the genre, the band delivers the spirit of death and doom, while paying tribute to one of the earliest occult movies filmed on Canadian soil.
Credits: Video and audio excerpts taken from Secrets of Chinatown – The black robe, Northern Films Ltd (1935).
Weepers of the Land track listing:
1. No Sacred Ground
2. The Way
3. Toute la noirceur du monde
4. Tomber 7 fois(Mylène Farmer cover, exclusive to CD)
5. Weepers of the Land
Available October 12, 2018, on Hypnotic Dirge Records.

Norilsk - The Way [Music Video]
From the album: Weepers of the LandReleased: October 12, 2018
Order CD: https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198
Digital [Name-your-price]: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/weepers-of-the-land
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On October 12, doom-death entity Norilsk is set to release a brand new offering; an omen that autumn will be tuned down to doom and the bitter cold. Weepers of the Land is the follow up mini-album to last year's full length Le passage des glaciers, presenting a more abrasive and visceral Norilsk weaving stories of heritage, loss, and displacement through dynamic and atmospheric blackened death-doom metal. Weepers of the Land will be Norilsk’s third installment on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
Vocalist/bassist Nic M. comments: “When we entered Wolf LakeStudio in 2017, we had enough new material to record nearly two albums. We chose to record it all, working with producer Mike Bond once again to explore the spectrum of possibilities and see what this beast would look like before deciding on how we would separate and release the material. On last year's Le passage des glaciers, the songs represented a cold and solitary travel inward, and we kept the more exploratory and collaborative songs for this year's follow up. Weepers of the Land could therefore be seen as the second half of this recording session, one where Norilsk has been cycling inward and outward.”
“The Way” is the first excerpt of Norilsk's 2018 release Weepers of the Land. In a surprisingly short length for the genre, the band delivers the spirit of death and doom, while paying tribute to one of the earliest occult movies filmed on Canadian soil.
Credits: Video and audio excerpts taken from Secrets of Chinatown – The black robe, Northern Films Ltd (1935).
Weepers of the Land track listing:
1. No Sacred Ground
2. The Way
3. Toute la noirceur du monde
4. Tomber 7 fois(Mylène Farmer cover, exclusive to CD)
5. Weepers of the Land
Available October 12, 2018, on Hypnotic Dirge Records.

1 - Norilsk - Japetus [OfficialMusic Video]
From the album: The Idea of North
Filmed and directed by Petr Maur.
Petr Maur Productions 2015
PetrMaur@yahoo.ca
The Japetus music video is an artistic collaboration between Norilsk and film producer Petr Maur, from Ottawa. Petr used drummer Nick Richer as the main character for his movie "Horsehead", and Norilsk's music as soundtrack. This music video is a short version of his movie, adapted to the song's length.
Order digipack CD: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-The-Idea-of-North/p/46894807/category=6794198
Free streaming / download: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-idea-of-north
Named afterSiberia’s northernmost city, home of a famous heavy metal smelting complex, Norilsk is a doom-death band from Gatineau (Québec), Canada. After releasing an EP, Japetus, in July 2014, Norilsk now unveils their debut album - “The Idea of North” in a glorious digipack edition on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
“The Idea of North” is a doom-death album crafted for the winter season: it has slow and crushing riffs, death growls, and atmospheric arrangements. An evocation of an ominous presence over a vast wasteland, “The Idea of North” is a massive offering that triggers the imagination. Its music draws comparison with doom-death bands such as My Dying Bride, Morgion and Ablaze in Hatred, but it also has a few atmospheric sludge/post metal elements reminiscent of Isis and Morne.
Feedback:
"The album, as a whole, is a slow moving glacier, much like the Japetus EP that came before it, but it is much thicker, longer, and brutally unforgiving, not stopping its steady march from the Northern mountains to the Northern ocean, where it will continue as icebergs destined to down ships. It’s a ride that you can’t just hop onto and off of when you are ready. This is an album full of nuance and attention to detail, and should be played as such, preferably with headphones. Throw in a doomed cover of a Belgian pop song, and you’ve got yourself a damn near perfect listen. Beyond recommended, I will probably go through two copies of this album this year alone."
-Crown of Viserys
"And one of the great strengths of 'The Idea Of North' is that it never sounds like a collection of ideas in search of a home: quite the opposite, in fact. There's a completeness in the way it grabs initial attention with the rousing, sludgy stomp of the first half, then evolves into a more chilly and thoughtfully introspective atmospheric beast (in places, even reminiscent of Dolorian); like a snow-fanged apocalypse avalanching across the world, leaving the last survivors huddled in the frozen wastes of its wake. The band call it 'crafted for the winter season', but by the visceral and lonely conclusion of the title track it seems quite possible that winter will be eternal."
-Doom-Metal.com
"This hour-long ode to the Arctic is a monolithic jamfest, through and through. From beginning to end, The Idea of North is a fantastic example of what modern doom metal should sound like. Thick, slow as molasses, and greatly atmospheric, Norilsk’s debut has exactly what it takes to land this band a spot in any doom metal fan’s list of bands to look out for."
-Heavy Blog is Heavy
Additional Norilsk Links:
Norilsk Profile: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk.php
Norilsk Archive / Blog: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk-blog.php
Norilsk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorilskDoom

1 - Norilsk - Japetus [OfficialMusic Video]
From the album: The Idea of North
Filmed and directed by Petr Maur.
Petr Maur Productions 2015
PetrMaur@yahoo.ca
The Japetus music video is an artistic collaboration between Norilsk and film producer Petr Maur, from Ottawa. Petr used drummer Nick Richer as the main character for his movie "Horsehead", and Norilsk's music as soundtrack. This music video is a short version of his movie, adapted to the song's length.
Order digipack CD: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-The-Idea-of-North/p/46894807/category=6794198
Free streaming / download: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-idea-of-north
Named afterSiberia’s northernmost city, home of a famous heavy metal smelting complex, Norilsk is a doom-death band from Gatineau (Québec), Canada. After releasing an EP, Japetus, in July 2014, Norilsk now unveils their debut album - “The Idea of North” in a glorious digipack edition on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
“The Idea of North” is a doom-death album crafted for the winter season: it has slow and crushing riffs, death growls, and atmospheric arrangements. An evocation of an ominous presence over a vast wasteland, “The Idea of North” is a massive offering that triggers the imagination. Its music draws comparison with doom-death bands such as My Dying Bride, Morgion and Ablaze in Hatred, but it also has a few atmospheric sludge/post metal elements reminiscent of Isis and Morne.
Feedback:
"The album, as a whole, is a slow moving glacier, much like the Japetus EP that came before it, but it is much thicker, longer, and brutally unforgiving, not stopping its steady march from the Northern mountains to the Northern ocean, where it will continue as icebergs destined to down ships. It’s a ride that you can’t just hop onto and off of when you are ready. This is an album full of nuance and attention to detail, and should be played as such, preferably with headphones. Throw in a doomed cover of a Belgian pop song, and you’ve got yourself a damn near perfect listen. Beyond recommended, I will probably go through two copies of this album this year alone."
-Crown of Viserys
"And one of the great strengths of 'The Idea Of North' is that it never sounds like a collection of ideas in search of a home: quite the opposite, in fact. There's a completeness in the way it grabs initial attention with the rousing, sludgy stomp of the first half, then evolves into a more chilly and thoughtfully introspective atmospheric beast (in places, even reminiscent of Dolorian); like a snow-fanged apocalypse avalanching across the world, leaving the last survivors huddled in the frozen wastes of its wake. The band call it 'crafted for the winter season', but by the visceral and lonely conclusion of the title track it seems quite possible that winter will be eternal."
-Doom-Metal.com
"This hour-long ode to the Arctic is a monolithic jamfest, through and through. From beginning to end, The Idea of North is a fantastic example of what modern doom metal should sound like. Thick, slow as molasses, and greatly atmospheric, Norilsk’s debut has exactly what it takes to land this band a spot in any doom metal fan’s list of bands to look out for."
-Heavy Blog is Heavy
Additional Norilsk Links:
Norilsk Profile: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk.php
Norilsk Archive / Blog: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk-blog.php
Norilsk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorilskDoom

Norilsk - The Idea of North [Full Album] (Death-Doom / Sludge Metal)

Norilsk - The Idea of North [Full Album]
Released: March 10, 2015
Tracklisting:
1 - Japetus (0:00)
2 - Planète heurt (8:11)
3 - Throa (15:50)
4 - La liberté aux ailes brisées (21:46)
5 - Nature morte (27:44)
6 - Potsdam Glo (31:51)
7 - La Grande Noirceur (38:10)
8 - The Idea of North (40:23)
End: 49:34
Order digipack CD: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-The-Idea-of-North/p/46894807/category=6794198
"Name-your-price" download: https://hypnoticdirgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-idea-of-north
Named afterSiberia’s northernmost city, home of a famous heavy metal smelting complex, Norilsk is a doom-death band from Gatineau (Québec), Canada. After releasing an EP, Japetus, in July 2014, Norilsk now unveils their debut album - “The Idea of North” in a glorious digipack edition on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
“The Idea of North” is a doom-death album crafted for the winter season: it has slow and crushing riffs, death growls, and atmospheric arrangements. An evocation of an ominous presence over a vast wasteland, “The Idea of North” is a massive offering that triggers the imagination. Its music draws comparison with doom-death bands such as My Dying Bride, Morgion and Ablaze in Hatred, but it also has a few atmospheric sludge/post metal elements reminiscent of Isis and Morne.
Feedback:
"The album, as a whole, is a slow moving glacier, much like the Japetus EP that came before it, but it is much thicker, longer, and brutally unforgiving, not stopping its steady march from the Northern mountains to the Northern ocean, where it will continue as icebergs destined to down ships. It’s a ride that you can’t just hop onto and off of when you are ready. This is an album full of nuance and attention to detail, and should be played as such, preferably with headphones. Throw in a doomed cover of a Belgian pop song, and you’ve got yourself a damn near perfect listen. Beyond recommended, I will probably go through two copies of this album this year alone."
-Crown of Viserys
"And one of the great strengths of 'The Idea Of North' is that it never sounds like a collection of ideas in search of a home: quite the opposite, in fact. There's a completeness in the way it grabs initial attention with the rousing, sludgy stomp of the first half, then evolves into a more chilly and thoughtfully introspective atmospheric beast (in places, even reminiscent of Dolorian); like a snow-fanged apocalypse avalanching across the world, leaving the last survivors huddled in the frozen wastes of its wake. The band call it 'crafted for the winter season', but by the visceral and lonely conclusion of the title track it seems quite possible that winter will be eternal."
-Doom-Metal.com
"This hour-long ode to the Arctic is a monolithic jamfest, through and through. From beginning to end, The Idea of North is a fantastic example of what modern doom metal should sound like. Thick, slow as molasses, and greatly atmospheric, Norilsk’s debut has exactly what it takes to land this band a spot in any doom metal fan’s list of bands to look out for."
-Heavy Blog is Heavy
Additional Norilsk Links:
Norilsk Profile: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk.php
Norilsk Archive / Blog: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk-blog.php
Norilsk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorilskDoom

NORILSK // PRESENTATION

Norilsk has challenged the very possibility of building a city in the extreme conditions of the North. It has become a world-class industrial center and one of the largest Arctic cities. And what else do we know about Norilsk? Presentation film for internal and external audiences.
Created in collaboration with N3design.

RUSSIA: NORILSK: ECONOMIC CRISIS THREATENS NICKEL MINING INDUSTRY

Russian/Nat
The financial crisis in Russia is about more than just politics - the heart of the Russian economy is straining under the pressure.
Even one of the country's biggest industries, nickel mining, has been put in jeopardy by the mounting difficulties.
Once fully protected, Soviet production was abandoned in 1994 to make way for free market competition - then Russia's financial crisis bit into its competitive appeal.
And now the world's largest nickel producer, Norilsk Nickel, has been left almost helpless as world prices for the metal continue to plummet.
Life in Norilsk is difficult at best, and almost always harrowing.
A city of more than 200-thousand, it is situated in the arctic tundra, where temperatures during the dark winter hover at minus 40 degrees Celsius and nothing grows - not even a tree.
50 years of non-stop mining and smelting has left this scarred city an environmental wasteland.
The air is poisonous and the water contaminated - Norilsk is believed to be the world's biggest source of acid rain.
Norilsk Nickel has spent most of its life under the arm of the Soviet government, originally churning out most of its metals for the Soviet military.
Now, however, Norilsk sells the majority of its product on the world market -- which means it must be competitive.
But since privatisation in 1994, Norilsk with its scores of smelters, mines and production facilities, has suffered one financial tragedy after another.
The factory's new owners are a Russian bank, itself nearly destroyed by the recent ruble devaluation.
It now has the massive and perhaps impossible task of turning a massive state subsidy into a profit making industry.
When the mine went private its new owners inherited a long list of problems, the biggest, all the social burdens of maintaining the city of Norilsk, from public transport, to hospitals, to kindergartens.
All of those costs make producing metal in Russia an extremely expensive business.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
"Norilsk Nickel has to answer for all of the town's social structure. Unfortunately that is just what history has left us. And without the company supporting the town, that is if we just abandoned those responsibilities, it is clear that the town of Norilsk would cease to exist. We cant just leave our workers, we have a responsibility to them. This is a very heavy load but we are doing our best to slowly transfer much of this responsibility to the government."
SUPERCAPTION: Alexander Bururhin, Chief Economist and HeadEngineer of Norilsk Nickel Factories
Despite all the company funding, life in Norilsk is hard.
Housed in crumbling apartment blocks, most workers never leave the factory - day after day it's often the only thing they see.
But the standard of living in Russia has fallen so low that these days most Norilsk residents feel grateful they have a job at all -- and that they are paid their wages on time.
During Soviet times citizens from all over the Union happily signed up for three to five year high-wage contracts in Norilsk's smelters and mines.
The idea was to work hard, save money and head back to the mainland.
But after the economy collapsed, industry across Russia has ground to a halt.
Most of those who came to Norilsk never got out. And they probably never will.
That makes for an ironic twist -- Norilsk was an icy prison camp before it was turned into the Soviet star of metals production.
Today many feel they are stuck in a modern financial gulag.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
SUPERCAPTION: Pavel Chernozhukov, Worker
Norilsk provides almost half the world's supply of nickel.
But despite its amazing resources, production costs are enormous.
SOUNDBITE: (Russian)
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This Russian River Mysteriously Turned Blood Red Then A Nickel Plant Revealed The Horrible Truth

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The Daldykan River runs right past the Russian settlement of Norilsk, the world’s most northerly city. Remote it may be, but Norilsk, which sits firmly inside the Arctic Circle, is home to over 100,000 people. And, as of recently, it took center stage in an environmental scandal that’s captured the world’s attention.
The scandal occurred at the beginning of September 2016. Norilsk locals had noticed that the Daldykan River – normally so lovely and so blue – had turned a distressing shade of blood red. And, although the river is unconnected to the city’s water supply, residents deemed the color strange enough to share on Russian social media.
The RussianMinistry of Natural Resources and Environment subsequently promised to investigate the phenomenon. Its theory was that the red hue could be the result of a leak from the nearby Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant.
Others, however, believed that the color had been caused by a deliberate chemical runoff from the same plant. Others still blamed the incident on a combination of the facility’s wastewater mixing with mineral ore. But, whichever way you cut it, everybody was pointing the finger at the nickel plant.
This wasn’t, in fact, the first time that pollution had been blamed for weird events in this part of Siberia. Certainly, the region has many mines that tap into its rich deposits of copper, nickel and silvery-white palladium.
This wealth of natural resources, then, comes at a cost to the environment. Indeed, mining the metals means that over four million tons of pollutants – including arsenic and lead – are belched into the atmosphere from Norilsk each year.
Environmentalist Richard Fuller, the president of the Blacksmith Institute, told TIME that “there’s not a single living tree” within a 30-mile radius of the Nadezhda plant. “It’s just a wasteland,” he added.
Incidentally, Norilsk was established in the mid 1930s as a Siberian labor camp. Life for the people forced to work there would have been pretty miserable, and while labor camps were later outlawed, the city remains, to this day, a challenging place to live.
Russia’s industry-driven pollution problem, however, is by no means limited to outermost Siberia. Today, in fact, three quarters of the country’s surface water – and, startlingly, half of all Russian water – is deemed polluted.
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NORILSK - La Voie Des Morts | Official Clip (2018)

French-Canadian doom act Norilsk unveils a new music video from their latest album Le passage des glaciers, released through HypnoticDirgeRecords. La voie des morts (The Way of the Dead) is a winter dirge, a black premonition accompanying the dead season. Without a doubt the fastest track on the album, it starts as a cold funeral march, before turning into a blackened procession.
The video was co-directed by Wikked Twist Films, located nearby Regina, and 2700 km-away HVYOne Productions, of Ottawa's area. Erik Labossière of Wikked Twist Films brought his universe of the macabre and the morose to develop a short story revolving around a few characters. Erik comments: “Shooting only a portion of a video and working with footage shot across the country was a unique situation and combining two narratives to create one full story was even moreso. Norilsk is very good at both defining their concept and allowing room for creativity on my part, and I really enjoyed expanding the universe we created in 'La noirceur intérieure' with some references and correlations to that video. I feel that a music video is an opportunity to give a visual palate to an auditory experience, and creating a powerful or intriguing narrative to accent the sound is a best of both worlds scenario. I love shooting this type of concept. A silent film narrated by only the music and message of the artist is such a rewarding and expansive collaboration.”
Nick Richer of Norilsk and HVY One adds: “We've known Erik for a few years now, as we toured with his bands Nachtterror and Altars of Grief, and he directed our previous video 'La noirceur intérieure.' Co-shooting a video is quite a nice feel when you have no idea what the other will come out with. I had high expectations from Erik after seeing his work, and he completely exceeded them. Working with him was a pleasant experience and is looking great for the future.”
Visit Hypnotic Dirge Records to purchase Norilsk's latest album Le passage des glaciers, and get your hands on other merchandise and exclusive packages.
Label :
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Credits:
Wikked Twist Films 2018
HVY One Productions 2018
The Wikked Twist Films segment of "La voie des morts" featured Amberyl Watson as the protagonist and SarahCameron as the "Ribbon-trap woman." Shooting was assisted by KristinWagner and filmed on a cold day in Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan.
The HVY One Productions segment features Nic Miquelon and Nick Richer, and filmed in the perpetual winter setting of various locations in the Gatineau Park, Quebec.
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Norilsk - The Way [Music Video] (Doom Death Metal)

Norilsk - The Way [Music Video]
From the album: Weepers of the LandReleased: October 12, 2018
Order CD: https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198https://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/hypnotic-dirge-webstore.php#!/Norilsk-Weepers-of-the-Land/p/116066194/category=6794198
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On October 12, doom-death entity Norilsk is set to release a brand new offering; an omen that autumn will be tuned down to doom and the bitter cold. Weepers of the Land is the follow up mini-album to last year's full length Le passage des glaciers, presenting a more abrasive and visceral Norilsk weaving stories of heritage, loss, and displacement through dynamic and atmospheric blackened death-doom metal. Weepers of the Land will be Norilsk’s third installment on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
Vocalist/bassist Nic M. comments: “When we entered Wolf LakeStudio in 2017, we had enough new material to record nearly two albums. We chose to record it all, working with producer Mike Bond once again to explore the spectrum of possibilities and see what this beast would look like before deciding on how we would separate and release the material. On last year's Le passage des glaciers, the songs represented a cold and solitary travel inward, and we kept the more exploratory and collaborative songs for this year's follow up. Weepers of the Land could therefore be seen as the second half of this recording session, one where Norilsk has been cycling inward and outward.”
“The Way” is the first excerpt of Norilsk's 2018 release Weepers of the Land. In a surprisingly short length for the genre, the band delivers the spirit of death and doom, while paying tribute to one of the earliest occult movies filmed on Canadian soil.
Credits: Video and audio excerpts taken from Secrets of Chinatown – The black robe, Northern Films Ltd (1935).
Weepers of the Land track listing:
1. No Sacred Ground
2. The Way
3. Toute la noirceur du monde
4. Tomber 7 fois(Mylène Farmer cover, exclusive to CD)
5. Weepers of the Land
Available October 12, 2018, on Hypnotic Dirge Records.

Norilsk - Japetus [Music Video] (Doom Death Metal)

1 - Norilsk - Japetus [OfficialMusic Video]
From the album: The Idea of North
Filmed and directed by Petr Maur.
Petr Maur Productions 2015
PetrMaur@yahoo.ca
The Japetus music video is an artistic collaboration between Norilsk and film producer Petr Maur, from Ottawa. Petr used drummer Nick Richer as the main character for his movie "Horsehead", and Norilsk's music as soundtrack. This music video is a short version of his movie, adapted to the song's length.
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Named afterSiberia’s northernmost city, home of a famous heavy metal smelting complex, Norilsk is a doom-death band from Gatineau (Québec), Canada. After releasing an EP, Japetus, in July 2014, Norilsk now unveils their debut album - “The Idea of North” in a glorious digipack edition on HypnoticDirgeRecords.
“The Idea of North” is a doom-death album crafted for the winter season: it has slow and crushing riffs, death growls, and atmospheric arrangements. An evocation of an ominous presence over a vast wasteland, “The Idea of North” is a massive offering that triggers the imagination. Its music draws comparison with doom-death bands such as My Dying Bride, Morgion and Ablaze in Hatred, but it also has a few atmospheric sludge/post metal elements reminiscent of Isis and Morne.
Feedback:
"The album, as a whole, is a slow moving glacier, much like the Japetus EP that came before it, but it is much thicker, longer, and brutally unforgiving, not stopping its steady march from the Northern mountains to the Northern ocean, where it will continue as icebergs destined to down ships. It’s a ride that you can’t just hop onto and off of when you are ready. This is an album full of nuance and attention to detail, and should be played as such, preferably with headphones. Throw in a doomed cover of a Belgian pop song, and you’ve got yourself a damn near perfect listen. Beyond recommended, I will probably go through two copies of this album this year alone."
-Crown of Viserys
"And one of the great strengths of 'The Idea Of North' is that it never sounds like a collection of ideas in search of a home: quite the opposite, in fact. There's a completeness in the way it grabs initial attention with the rousing, sludgy stomp of the first half, then evolves into a more chilly and thoughtfully introspective atmospheric beast (in places, even reminiscent of Dolorian); like a snow-fanged apocalypse avalanching across the world, leaving the last survivors huddled in the frozen wastes of its wake. The band call it 'crafted for the winter season', but by the visceral and lonely conclusion of the title track it seems quite possible that winter will be eternal."
-Doom-Metal.com
"This hour-long ode to the Arctic is a monolithic jamfest, through and through. From beginning to end, The Idea of North is a fantastic example of what modern doom metal should sound like. Thick, slow as molasses, and greatly atmospheric, Norilsk’s debut has exactly what it takes to land this band a spot in any doom metal fan’s list of bands to look out for."
-Heavy Blog is Heavy
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Norilsk Archive / Blog: http://www.hypnoticdirgerecords.com/norilsk-blog.php
Norilsk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NorilskDoom